Are Online Poker Bots Taking Human Players to The Cleaners?

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) February 15, 2006 --Before pushing their chips into the pot at their local poker games people can always look into the eyes of their opponents and try and get a read on them. Even if they can’t mange to get a good read they can at least be certain that they are playing against a human player. That might sound trivial to some – but in the online world it seems that people cannot even be assured of that.

Concern has been growing for quite some time now about the existence of advanced card-playing robots that have the ability to outplay human opponents. The online casinos are worried enough about the problem that most of them have entire teams of programmers dedicated to detecting anyone who uses them. Once caught the user’s can be barred from playing at the sites again.

There is no question that poker bots exist. There are even a few that are commercially available. The question is how effective are these bots? Well that depends on which poker bot you are talking about.

There are two main problems with most commercially available bots. The first is that some are way too complicated for the average user to use. They require extensive set-up and advanced configuration that most of us mere mortals would find too difficult. The second problem associated with commercially available bots is detection. Online casinos do invest considerable resources in trying to catch people using them – this leaves the bot developers in a constant game of cat and mouse.

“The casinos know that our bots are a threat to there business. Once people realize that a computer program can beat them they will not play online anymore. At least that is the worry of the casino owners.” Said David Glazen the owner of www.pokerbot-pro.com and lead developer of the PokerBot-Pro the most popular pokerbot on the internet today.

Exactly how effective these bots are or may become in the future is still an open question. David Glazen seems to feel that poker bots will one day render online poker obsolete. “It will become a battle of the bots for supremacy with human players giving their money to the best bots”. Only time will tell.

Press Release - 2006-02-16 02:54:45